List of fiction set in Toronto

A list of fiction set in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in whole or in part.

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## English

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### Novels

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* Lovers and Strangers by Joyce Marshall (1957)
* The Meeting Point by Austin Clarke (1967)
* Cabbagetown by Hugh Garner (1968)
* The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood (1969)
* Cabbagetown Diary: A Documentary by Juan Butler (1970)
* A Fine and Private Place by Morley Callaghan (1975)
* The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Škvorecký (1977, Translated 1984)
* Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood (1979)
* The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies (1981)
* The Martyrology Book 5 by B. P. Nichol (1982)
* The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay (1984) The Fionavar Tapestry
* Fables of Brunswick Avenue by Katherine Govier (1985)
* What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies (1985)
* The Wandering Fire by Guy Gavriel Kay (1986) The Fionavar Tapestry
* The Darkest Road by Guy Gavriel Kay (1986) The Fionavar Tapestry
* In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje (1987)
* Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (1988)
* The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies (1988)
* Born To Lose (novella and stories) by Trevor Clark (author) (1989)
* Killshot by Elmore Leonard (1989)
* A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1989)
* Barking Dogs by Terence M. Green (1989)
* Losing Joe's Place by Gordon Korman (1990)
* Murther and Walking Spirits by Robertson Davies (1991)
* Blood Price (Vicky Nelson, P.I.) by Tanya Huff (1991)
* No New Land by M. G. Vassanji (1991)
* Blood Trail (Vicky Nelson, P.I.) by Tanya Huff (1992)
* Blood Lines (Vicky Nelson, P.I.) by Tanya Huff (1993)
* Blood Pact (Vicky Nelson, P.I.) by Tanya Huff (1993)
* Headhunter by Timothy Findley (1993)
* The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (1993)
* The Innocence of Age by Neil Bissoondath (1993)
* The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies (1994)
* How Insensitive by Russell Smith (1994)
* Deadly by Nature by Meredith Andrew (1995)
* The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer (1995)
* Moonlit Days and Nights by D. H. Toole (1995)
* Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (1996)
* Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (1996)
* To Dance At The Palais Royale by Jane McNaughton (1996)
* Blood Debt (Vicky Nelson, P.I.) by Tanya Huff (1997)
* Blue Limbo by Terence M. Green (1997)
* Buying On Time by Antanas Sileika (1997)
* Where She Has Gone by Nino Ricci (1997)
* "1978" by Daniel Jones (1998)
* Brown Girl in the Ring Nalo Hopkinson (1998)
* Factoring Humanity by Robert J. Sawyer (1998)
* Noise by Russell Smith (1998)
* Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask by Jim Munroe (1999) ISBN 9780380810437
* A Witness to Life by Terence M. Green (1999)
* Sanctuary & Other Stories by Jennifer Duncan (1999)
* The Rules of Engagement by Catherine Bush (2000)
* The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (2000)
* Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer (2000) ISBN 0812580354
* Courage My Love by Sarah Dearing (2001)
* Thirsty by Dionne Brand (2001)
* Margery Looks Up by Meredith Andrew (2002)
* Back Flip by Anne Denoon (2002)
* Making a Killing by Warren Dunford (2002)
* The Neanderthal Parallax by Robert J. Sawyer
* Hominids (2002)
* Humans (2003)
* Hybrids (2003)
* Cat's Crossing by Bill Cameron (2003)
* The Double by Philip Quinn (2003)
* Doctor Bloom's Story by Don Cole (2004)
* Death in the Age of Steam by Mel Bradshaw (2004)
* An opening act of unspeakable evil by Jim Munroe (2004) ISBN 9780968636336
* The City Man by Howard Ackler (2005)
* Gently Down the Stream by Ray Robertson (2005)
* What We All Long For by Dionne Brand (2005)
* Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2005)(available online)
* The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke by Steven Hayward (2005)
* Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam
* How Happy to Be by Katrina Onstad (2006)
* Consolation by Michael Redhill (2006)
* Blood Bank (Vicky Nelson, P.I.) by Tanya Huff (2008)
* Girls Fall Down by Maggie Helwig (2008)
* Barnacle Love by Anthony de Sa (2008)
* Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving (2009) ISBN 9780307398369
* "The Carnivore" by Mark Sinnett (2009)
* Dragging The River by Trevor Clark (2009)
* Holding Still for as Long as Possible by Zoe Whittall (2009)
* The Incident Report by Martha Baillie (2009)
* The Charlie Salter mysteries by Eric Wright
* The Jane Yeats mystery series by Liz Brady
* Ghosted by Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall (2010)
* Old City Hall by Robert Rotenberg (2010)
* Love On The Killing Floor by Trevor Clark (2010)
* How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti (2010)
* Six Metres of Pavement by Farzana Doctor (2011)
* The Guilty Plea by Robert Rotenberg (2011)
* Dawn at the Royal Star by Jeff Sinasac (2011)
* Stray Bullets by Robert Rotenberg (2012)
* Kicking the Sky by Anthony de Sa (2013)
* Stranglehold by Robert Rotenberg (2013)
* The Placebo Effect (Junction Chronicles) by David Rotenberg (2013)
* A Murder of Crows (Junction Chronicles) by David Rotenberg (2013)
* Dream Caster by Najeev Raj Nadarajah (2013)
* The Glass House (Junction Chronicles) by David Rotenberg (2014)
* The Cheese Stealer's Handbook by Shoshaku Jushaku (2014)
* Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (2014)
* Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis (2015)
* The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan (2015)
* The Society of Experience by Matt Cahill (2015)
* The Hidden Keys by Andre Alexis (2016)
* Ghost Pains by Alan Michael Beau (2016)
* The Language of Secrets by Ausma Zehanat Khan (2016)
* Heart of the City by Robert Rotenberg (2017)
* Among the Ruins by Ausma Zehanat Khan (2017)
* A Death in Sarajevo by Ausma Zehanat Khan (2017)
* Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill (2017)
* Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez (2017)
* A Dangerous Crossing by Ausma Zehanat Khan (2018)
* The Grimoire of Kensington Market by Lauren B. Davis (2018)
* Ayesha At Last by Uzma Jalaluddin (2018)
* One and Only by Jenny Holiday (2018)
* Not Another Family Wedding by Jackie Lau (2018) Chin-Williams Series
* The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (2019)
* The Chai Factor by Farah Heron (2019)
* A Deadly Divide by Ausma Zehanat Khan (2019)
* The Diamond Queen of Singapore by Ian Hamilton (2020) The Ava Lee Series
* The Stand-In by Lily Chu (2021)
* Hannah Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin (2021)
* The Bank Street Peeper by Erma Odrach (2021)
* Every Summer After by Carley Fortune (2022)
* Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club by Roselle Lim (2022)
* Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury (2022)
* Blood Like Fate by Liselle Sambury (2022)
* Chaos Calling by E. M. Williams (2022) The Xenthian Cycle
* The Comeback by Lily Chu (2023)
* Jane & Edward by Melodie Edwards (2023)
* Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune (2023)
* Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey (2023)
* Much Ado About Nada by Uzma Jalaluddin (2023)
* Denison Avenue by Christina Wong and Daniel Innes (2023)
* Cold by Drew Hayden Taylor (2024)

### Graphic novels

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* Jellaby: Monster in the City by Kean Soo (2009)
* Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley (2004–2010)
* Skim by Mariko Tamaki (2008)

### Short stories

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* Toronto Short Stories by Morris Wolfe and Douglas Daymond (1977)
* Streets of Attitude: Toronto Stories by Cary Fagan and Robert MacDonald (1990)
* "People One Knows: Toronto Stories" by Daniel Jones (1994)
* This Ain't No Healing Town by Barry Callaghan (1995)
* Canada Geese and Apple Chatney by Sasenarine Persaud (1998)
* Concrete Forest by Hal Niedzviecki (1998)
* Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis (2004)
* Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood (2014)
* Immigrant City by David Bezmozgis (2019)
* Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta (2019)
* The Vinyl Cafe series by Stuart McLean
* 1995 – Stories from the Vinyl Cafe
* 1996 – When We Were Young: A Collection of Canadian Stories
* 1998 – Home from the Vinyl Cafe
* 2001 – Vinyl Cafe Unplugged
* 2003 – Vinyl Cafe Diaries
* 2005 – Stories from the Vinyl Cafe 10th Anniversary Edition
* 2006 – Secrets from the Vinyl Cafe
* 2006 – Dave Cooks the Turkey
* 2009 – Extreme Vinyl Café
* 2010 – The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks
* 2012 – Revenge of The Vinyl Cafe
* 2013 – Time Now For The Vinyl Cafe Story Exchange
* 2015 – Vinyl Cafe Turns the Page

### TV series

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* Airwaves
* Alias Grace
* The Arrow
* The Associates
* Being Erica
* Billable Hours
* Bitten
* Blood Ties
* Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
* Blue Murder
* The Border
* Captain Flamingo
* The City
* Connor Undercover
* Cracked
* Da Kink in My Hair
* Degrassi, including:
* The Kids of Degrassi Street
* Degrassi Junior High
* Degrassi High
* Degrassi: The Next Generation
* Degrassi: Next Class
* The Detail
* Diamonds
* Dino Dan
* Dino Dana
* Drop the Beat
* E.N.G.
* Flashpoint
* Forever Knight
* Frankie Drake Mysteries
* The Great Detective
* Hangin' In, 1981–1987
* The Indian Detective
* King
* Kim's Convenience
* King of Kensington, 1975–1980
* Kenny vs. Spenny
* Life With Derek
* Liberty Street
* The Line
* The Listener
* Mary Kills People
* Material World
* Metropia
* Murdoch Mysteries
* The Next Step
* The Newsroom
* Nirvanna the Band the Show
* Once a Thief
* Orphan Black
* Our Hero
* Private Eyes
* Pure Pwnage
* Ransom
* Really Me
* ReGenesis
* Remedy
* Riverdale
* Rookie Blue
* Saving Hope
* Secret Millionaires Club
* Seeing Things
* Side Effects
* Straight Up
* Street Legal
* This Is Wonderland
* Total Drama Island
* Traders
* Train 48
* Twitch City
* Wojeck
* Workin' Moms
* The Zack Files

### Film

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* The Adjuster (1991)
* Ararat (2002)
* The Art of Woo (2001)
* Blood and Donuts (1995)
* Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006)
* Breakfast with Scot (2007)
* Calendar (1993)
* Camilla(1994)
* Canadian Bacon (1995)
* Childstar (2004)
* Chloe (2009)
* Circle of Two (1981)
* Citizen Gangster (2011)
* Crash (1996)
* Dead Ringers (1988)
* Deadly Eyes (1982)
* Down the Road Again (2011)
* Dr. Cabbie (2014)
* Driven (2001)
* Enemy (2013)
* Every Day (2018)
* Exotica (1994)
* The F Word (2013)
* Foolproof (2003)
* Goin' Down the Road (1970)
* Going the Distance (2004)
* H (1990)
* Highpoint (1982)
* Hollywood North (2003)
* How She Move (2007)
* The Hurricane (1999)
* I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)
* Ivory Tower (2010)
* Khaled (2001)
* The Kidnapping of the President (1980)
* Last Night (1998)
* Let's All Hate Toronto (2007)
* The Love Guru (2008)
* Monkey Warfare (2006)
* My Life Without Me (2003)
* Picture Day (2012)
* One Week (2008)
* Owning Mahowny (2003)
* Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
* The Silent Partner (1978)
* Sugar (2004)
* Take This Waltz (2011)
* This Movie Is Broken (2010)
* The Uncles (2000)
* Toronto Stories (2008)
* Turning Red (2022)
* Videodrome (1983)
* When Night Is Falling (1995)

### Overviews

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* Greg Gatenby's Toronto: A Literary Guide (McArthur, 1999) provides an encyclopaedic literary tour of Toronto places.
* Robert Fulford’s lecture from 1996 called: "The Invention of Toronto".
* Amy Lavender Harris' Imagining Toronto (Mansfield, 2010), a comprehensive study of literary representations of Toronto.

## French

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### Novels

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* Du vieux vin dans des bouteilles neuves by Frederick J. A. Davidson (1926)
* Ainsi parle la tour CN by Hédi Bouraoui (1999)
* Toronto, je t’aime by Didier Leclair (2000)
* Ce pays qui est le mien by Didier Leclair (2003)
* 69, rue de la Luxure by Paul-François Sylvestre (2004)
* Déclic à Toronto by Mireille Messier (2004)
* La première guerre de Toronto by Daniel Marchildon (2010)
* Toronto (érotique gay) by Bravery (2012)
* Tila à Toronto by Jean-Baptiste Mubalutila Mbizi (2013)
* Les dragouilles T.16 : Les bleues de Toronto by Karine Gottot (2016)
* À bientôt, Toronto ! by Louis Laforce (2021)
* Welsford by Claude Guilmain (2023)

## Chinese

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### Novels

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* Sun Bo (孙博)，《男人三十》 (Nanren sanshi) (Men in 30s)。北京：文化艺术，2000. ISBN 9787503919350
* Yu Xi 余曦，《安大略湖畔》 (Andalue hupan) (The Shores of Lake Ontario)。北京：作家，2005. ISBN 9787506331623
* Zhang Ling 张翎，《邮购新娘》(Dougou xinniang) (Mail order wife) 北京：作家，2004. ISBN 9787506328180

### Short stories

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* Zhang Ling 张翎，《雁过澡溪》(Yan guo zaoxi) (四川成都：成都时代，2006.
* Zhang Ling 张翎，《盲约》(Mang yue)。广东广州：花城，2005. ISBN 9787536043923
* Zhang Ling 张翎，《尘世》(Chen shi) (The world of flesh)。广西南宁：广西人民，2004. ISBN 9787219050132

## Hindi

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### Films

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* Bollywood/Hollywood. Deepa Mehta, 2002.
* Kismat Konnection. Aziz Mirza, 2008.

## Tamil

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### Films

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* Arasangam (2008)

## References

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* Imagining Toronto
* Essential Toronto Reads, Reading Toronto
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